It's great being wrong sometimes

Sometimes it takes a whiteboard to tell you you're wrong, and it can be  a happy experience.

Some of us were under the impression that DVRs didn't save much energy over VCR recording, that the savings people see when they upgrade is instead in terms of no more replacement VCRs, cassette tapes, big-footprint storage costs, rebuilds and repairs, and labor to change over tapes, label/archive/store them, search for evidence...you get the picture.

But a trip to the whiteboard today with a magic marker woke us up to the fact that users of [at least our ] DVRs draw up to 50% less energy!

Try Airship's HD Series DVR: 9 watts per channel (CIF recording) against the typical VCRs' 17.

Abigail